Sham consent popups finally deemed illegal! 🎉 (www.iccl.ie)
from Paddy66@lemmy.ml to privacy@lemmy.ml on 14 May 21:03
https://lemmy.ml/post/30107899

Great news for online privacy!

#privacy

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MummifiedClient5000@feddit.dk on 14 May 21:46 next collapse

You can recognize TCF is used when cookie banners have near-nonsense options for thousands of “partners”.

Paddy66@lemmy.ml on 14 May 21:56 collapse

Totally. And that “legitimate interest” nonsense takes ages to click through 🤦

Plagiatus@lemmy.world on 14 May 23:33 next collapse

I’m using this extension on FF, it seems to be doing a decent job at unchecking all the boxes for me: addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/…/consent-o-matic/

Paddy66@lemmy.ml on 14 May 23:43 next collapse

That is a great find. Thank you!

lime@feddit.nu on 14 May 23:49 collapse

if you’re trying to circumvent them the best method is to just disable javascript. the next best method is ublock filterlists. but i do use consentomatic as well because i’m lazy.

[deleted] on 15 May 02:06 collapse

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gofsckyourself@lemmy.world on 15 May 08:26 collapse

You can disable JavaScript with uBlock Origin

LwL@lemmy.world on 15 May 15:49 collapse

Ime with ublock it’s not nearly as easy to manage allowing only specific scripts to run on each website to make it work but with less garbage added on compared to noscript

floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 15 May 08:05 next collapse

Which is also pointless - “legitimate interest” is basically them saying “i have a very good reason to access your data, as per GDPR, so I don’t need explicit consent”. Deselecting it has no effect, I think they only do that to make you lose time. The only way to avoid those companies using your data is to challenge them in court and show that they do not, in fact, have a legitimate interest. That’s their whole game

MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml on 15 May 11:47 collapse

This is illegal, they are required to be opt-in, default toggled off.

MummifiedClient5000@feddit.dk on 16 May 14:09 collapse

“legitimate interest” is kind of a loophole, because there is some legal basis for it. This is why they think it is OK to leave it on by default.

It’s obviously not OK and those data pigs should burn in hell.

RejZoR@lemmy.ml on 14 May 22:09 next collapse

I thought all the cookie popups that don’t have Allow all, Deny all and Customize options were all illegal by default. So many of them have huge ALLOW ALL and denying is hidden in submenu where you need to uncheck 50 entires one by ond. Why it took them so damn long?

Also for 700+ companies to fester on anyone’s browsing data is just vomit inducing and should be illegal.

MajesticElevator@lemmy.zip on 15 May 00:50 next collapse

It’s in Belgium. How does it apply in Europe globally?

ogeist@lemmy.world on 15 May 01:57 next collapse

Today’s judgement confirms the Belgian Data Protection Authority’s 2022 decision. It applies immediately across Europe.

Dr Ryan of Enforce said “This decision is momentous. It creates a clear need for industry to innovate and move away from the dangerous, ineffective, and fraud-riddled racking-based advertising. RTB can operate without personal data. This decision shows that it must. This good news for every person online, and for publishers, too.”

MajesticElevator@lemmy.zip on 15 May 11:27 next collapse

That’s what I read, but again, that’s just the interpretation of an european law by Belgium and Belgium only. Other european countries could rule otherwise, thus not creating any case law.

So all is not set, but yea it might be very possible that to avoid any risks, websites go with Belgium’s rulings of what’s illegal to avoid troubles in other countries.

[deleted] on 15 May 11:44 collapse

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[deleted] on 15 May 11:45 collapse

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af0da3rt@lemmy.world on 15 May 01:33 next collapse

This ruling does nearly nothing for privacy. All it does is confirm that the data captured by the framework (TCF) behind cookie banners (still legal) is personal data and thus subject to GDPR.

Paddy66@lemmy.ml on 15 May 10:14 next collapse

Oh… I thought it meant that those cookie banners were ‘false consent’ and therefore render the data collected to be illegal?

Please provide more info - I would like to learn more about this subject!

MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml on 15 May 11:39 collapse

For seven years, the tracking industry has used the TCF as a legal cover for Real-Time Bidding (RTB), the vast advertising auction system that operates behind the scenes on websites and apps. RTB tracks what Internet users look at and where they go in the real world. It then continuously broadcasts this data to a host of companies, enabling them to keep dossiers on every Internet user.[2] Because there is no security in the RTB system it is impossible to know what then happens to the data. As a result, it is also impossible to provide the necessary information that must accompany a consent request.[3]

In short, RTB makes it impossible for the user to know where his data goes, which is a requirement for consent.

laserjet@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 15 May 03:40 next collapse

ctrl + f guillotine

ctrl + f prison

ctrl + f jail

ctrl + f sentence

ctrl + f fine

not illegal enough

Xttweaponttx@sh.itjust.works on 19 May 16:02 collapse

FUCK YEAH!! 🎉🎊🎉